Weed vegetation response to chemical and manual selective ground cover management in a shaded coffee plantation

Weed Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 68-75

  Aguilar, Victor ^a,b   Staver, C ^c   Milberg, P ^d  

^a National Agrarian University   (Nicaragua)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c CATIE   (Costa Rica)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Nicaragua; Partial RDA; Weed communities

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONTROL; COFFEE; GROUND COVER; MECHANICAL CONTROL; WEED CONTROL;

OPLISMENUS BURMANNII;

EID: 0037327732     PISSN: 00431737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3180.2003.00318.x     Document Type: Article

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